Donald Trump has insulted numerous individuals, groups, ethnicities, religions and others during the past year of his presidential campaign. Below is a round-up of some of Trump’s most direct insults.

Trump Insults Gold Star Families, Veterans

The family of an American Muslim soldier who was killed in combat called out Trump for his racist behavior and rhetoric at the Democratic National Convention. Khizr Khan, whose son sacrificed his life to save the lives of his soldiers, told Trump, “You have sacrificed nothing and no one.”

Trump responded that he has, in fact, made sacrifices: “I’ve worked very, very hard. I’ve created thousands and thousands of jobs … I’ve had tremendous success. I think I’ve done a lot.”

He also insulted Khan’s wife, who did not speak during her husband’s speech, asking if she was perhaps not allowed to talk — stereotyping the Muslim community.

“If you look at his wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say, she probably — maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say, you tell me,” Trump told Stephanopoulos. In an interview with the New York Times Friday night, Trump said, “I’d like to hear his wife say something.”

Later, at a rally, Trump accepted a Purple Heart from a veteran. Purple Hearts are only awarded to armed forces who were injured or killed in combat.

“I’ve always wanted to get the real Purple Heart,” he said. “This was much easier.”

Other Gold Star families, veterans and veterans groups responded, including Illinois Congresswoman and Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth, who lost both of her legs and suffered other injuries in combat. She tweeted a photo of herself in the hospital, saying, “This is how one usually looks when you are awarded the Purple Heart. Nothing easy about it.

“He’s such a great guy. Roger is — I mean, what he’s done on television, is in the history of television, he’s gotta be placed in the top three, or four or five. And that includes the founding of the major networks. So, it’s too bad. I’m sure it was friendly.”

In a separate interview he shamed the victims and said that Ailes ‘helped’ them.

“I can tell you that some of the women that are complaining, I know how much he’s helped them,” he said. “And even recently. And when they write books that are fairly recently released, and they say wonderful things about him. And now all of a sudden they’re saying these horrible things about him.”

When asked if Ailes was helping advise Trump’s campaign he did not provide a full answer: “Well, I don’t want to comment. But he’s been a friend of mine for a long time.”

Trump also added that “when you think about Roger Ailes, in the history of television, there’s really been almost no instances where something like this has been done before.”

However, according to Ailes’ 2014 biography “The Loudest Voice in the Room,” written by Gabriel Sherman, this is not the first allegation of sexual harassment against Ailes. The book details claims from other women, including Randi Harrison. Harrison was in her twenties and looking to be hired as a segment producer and told Ailes his salary offer was too low. “If you agree to have sex with me whenever I want I will add an extra hundred dollars a week,” Ailes reportedly said.

Sherman’s book also reveals that Ailes regularly required on-air female personalities to stop wearing pantsuits and showcase their legs. In one case, Ailes bought a glass anchor desk specifically to show the hosts’ legs.

Trump Courts Anti-LGBT Hate Groups

Just one week after repeatedly touting himself as the real friend of the LGBT community, Trump set out to meet with the leaders of some of the most anti-LGBT hate groups in the country.

The private event, “A Conversation About America’s Future with Donald Trump and Ben Carson,” is has been described by the Huffington Post as “a private meeting with over 400 of the most bigoted, most homophobic and most influential anti-LGBT advocates in the United States — from Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins to James Dobson, founder of the Focus on the Family — the bedrock of the religious right, which has been a prominent part of the base of the Republican Party for decades.”

Just after the Orlando massacre, Trump called himself a “friend” to the LGBT community. However, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) President Chad Griffin called the statements “shameful and disgusting.”

“[Trump] is no friend to the LGBT community. He is no friend,” Griffin said on CNN. “And at a moment like this when a leader should put their personal ambitions and their partisan differences aside, or just shut up, but if they choose to speak out, they should be speaking from a place of unity and a place of sympathy and talking about building bridges.”

During a campaign rally in San Diego, Trump personally attacked the federal judge overseeing the case in which he’s accused of defrauding students through his failed Trump University venture, calling the judge “a hater” and a “very hostile” person who had “railroaded” him — then adding a jab that the judge is Mexican.

“Everybody says it, but I have a judge who is a hater of Donald Trump, a hater. He’s a hater. His name is Gonzalo Curiel,” Trump said. “I think Judge Curiel should be ashamed of himself. I think it’s a disgrace that he’s doing this. The judge, who happens to be, we believe, Mexican…I think the Mexicans are going to end up loving Donald Trump.”

Trump’s outburst followed U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s order on Friday to unseal materials, including Trump University procedures that had previously been published and described by a previous judge as “routine” and “commonplace.” A class-action lawsuit accuses Trump University of misleading thousands of people who paid up to $35,000 for seminars to learn about real estate investment strategies. A separate suit was filed by the New York attorney general.

Trump to Former Miss Universe: ‘Miss Piggy,’ ‘Miss Housekeeping’

Trump’s hate greatly predates his bid for the White House. A recent New York Times article interviewed numerous women who have worked with Trump over the years, including former Miss Universe Alicia Machado. Machado, a native of Venezuela, also shared her story in an interview with Inside Edition.

“He called me Miss Piggy, Miss Housekeeping,” Machado said. When asked how this made her feel, she said, “So sad. I was very depressed.”

Machado was just 19 when she was crowned Miss Universe. In the months following the pageant Machado gained weight, for which Trump publicly shamed her, Machado said. Trump called her “an eating machine” on the Howard Stern radio show.

“For sure, he’s not a good person,” Machado said, adding that Trump bullied her “all the time.”

She told the president of Miss Universe at the time that she just needed “some time to recuperate, to rest, to exercise, to eat right.” But circumstances did not improve.

“The next day, they took me to a gym, and I’m exposed to 90 media outlets. Donald Trump was there. I had no idea that would happen,” Machado recalled.

“I was about to cry in that moment with all the cameras there. I said, ‘I don’t want to do this, Mr. Trump.’ He said, ‘I don’t care.’”

Trump had Machado do exercises that included her bending over in front of dozens of media. In an interview at the time Trump said, “She weighed 118 pounds or 117 pounds and she went up to 160 or 170, so this is somebody that likes to eat.”

When asked about his treatment of Machado, Trump offered no denial, saying, “To that, I will plead guilty.”

According to Machado, Trump was also guilty of years of subsequent mental health problems. “After that episode, I was sick, anorexia and bulimia for five years,” she said. “Over the past 20 years, I’ve gone to a lot of psychologists to combat this.”

Trump Calls Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas’

In an Albuquerque, New Mexico, rally this week, Trump called Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) “Pocahontas.”

“She said she was an Indian,” Trump pressed on. “She said because her cheekbones were high, she was an Indian, that she was Native American.”

Questions regarding Warren’s ancestry arose in 2012, at which time it became public that Warren self-identified as Native American. Warren received criticism because no evidence could be found to substantiate her claim. But Warren has stated that she is “proud” of her heritage: “These are my family stories,” Warren said at the time of the controversy.

At the rally, Trump also repeatedly called Warren a “total failure” and said she is doing “the least” of all the U.S. senators.

“We have these surrogates, people like her — total failures,” he said.

On Wednesday morning Trump took his rhetoric against Warren further, this time on Twitter.

Goofy Senator Elizabeth Warren @elizabethforma has done less in the U.S. Senate than practically any other senator. All talk, no action!

Trump Doubles Down on Clinton ‘Playing the Woman Card’; ‘Indians Have Gone Wild’

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump did not hold back on further attacks against Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton on Monday, when he once again accused her of “playing the woman card” and slammed Clinton for her “off the reservation” comment.

Last week, Trump said Clinton has “got nothing else going for her” besides being a woman. “If Hillary Clinton were a man,” he said, “I don’t think she’d get five percent of the vote.” He proceeded to boast about his own success with the female demographic: “And the beautiful thing is that women don’t like her, okay? And look how well I did with women tonight.”

But polls show that Trump’s favorability with women actually has been on the decline. A Gallup poll released last month showed that 70 percent of women had an unfavorable view of Trump — up from 59 percent in December. A Purple Slice poll published by Bloomberg Politics also showed a 70 percent unfavorable rating for Trump, specifically among married women. In a CNN poll that asked female voters to choose between Clinton and Trump, 60 percent said they would support Clinton, while 33 percent chose Trump.

On Friday, Clinton dismissed Trump’s remarks, saying she “could really care less” what he has to say about her.

“I have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and how they speak,” she said in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. “I’m not going to deal with their temper tantrums or their bullying or their efforts to try and provoke me.”

But her “off the reservation” comment brought her criticism of her own, including from Trump, who spoke with CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Monday.

“If I made that statement about women, it’d be front-page headlines,” Trump said. “It’s a very demeaning statement.”

Cuomo interjected to say that Trump did, essentially, say the same thing about women when he first accused Clinton of “playing the woman card” last week.

But Trump continued, saying he didn’t want to discuss the reaction that Native Americans had to Clinton’s statement — just before continuing the discussion.

“I won’t even bring up the fact that the Indians have gone wild on this statement, and you know this,” Trump said to Cuomo, who said he actually had not heard about the incident until Trump brought it up. “They think it’s a disastrous statement and they want a retraction. I’m not going to get into that.”

Clinton’s comment did lead to “raised eyebrows” in the Native American community, according to Native News Online. Nicole Willis, national tribal outreach director for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign, commented to the publication, “This is one of many sayings that marginalize the experience of American Indians and Alaska Natives. I’m disappointed that politicians who should have ample opportunity to interface with tribal representatives still use such expressions.”

A 2014 NPR article traced the roots of the phrase, which is “Native American peoples were restricted to reservations created by the U.S. government, and their freedom was severely limited by the terms of the treaties they were often forced to sign.” Rob Capriccioso, who is of the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians and Washington D.C. bureau chief for Indian Country Today, said he does not find the phrase as offensive as others, “including the name of the Washington football team — but I believe it is the common use of [these phrases] that allows people to end up being comfortable going further.”

Johnnie Jae, of Native Max magazine, said, “[Clinton] has some battle tested Native women with her campaign, but the way she has interacted with communities of color is mind boggling.”

Clinton’s campaign responded to the criticism via Twitter in two tweets from Amanda Renteria, Clinton’s national political director.

(1/2) About the use of an expression today that has some very offensive roots…Divisive language has no place in our politics.

“I refuse to call Megyn Kelly a bimbo, because that would not be politically correct,” the Republican frontrunner wrote. “Instead I will only call her a lightweight reporter!”

Trump’s announcement that he would not attend the Jan. 28 Republican debate sparked controversy and people wondered if the real estate mogul’s decision had anything to do with Megyn Kelly, who, incidentally, Trump did call a bimbo just one day later when he retweeted one of his supporters who was criticizing a recent magazine shoot Kelly participated in. The tweet includes a picture of the shoot with the caption “Criticizes Trump for objectifying women. Poses like this in GQ magazine.” The text in the tweet reads, “And this is the bimbo that’s asking presidential questions?”

According to Trump, his refusal to participate in the debate was not because of Kelly and was rather because he felt attacked by Fox as a whole, citing poor PR tactics on the part of the network.

And in an interview with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, Trump still refused to budge on his decision and seemed to say it was a revenge move, calling his choice “an eye for an eye.”

“I don’t like being taken advantage of,” he said in regards to Fox’s refusal to take Kelly off as a moderator despite Trump’s claims that Kelly is “biased” against him.

But Kelly seems to be taking a more mature stance on the situation, saying in an interview with Extra, “There is no bias whatsoever” when it comes to her and Trump. And unlike Trump, who, based on his Twitter, gives a lot of thought to Kelly and her alleged bias against him, Kelly does not care much for the so-called feud.

“I neither like nor dislike him,” she said. “I don’t really have any feelings about him. I cover these guys as subjects, you know, they’re subjects for me to study and get to know and help the audience get to know. So I really don’t spend a lot of time thinking about him.”

In fact, Kelly said it would possibly be better for the debate if Trump did show up.

“I’ll be surprised if he doesn’t show up. I think Donald Trump is a showman and he’s very good at generating interest, and perhaps this is an effort to generate interest in our debate. And if it is, that’s great; maybe we’ll have more eyeballs. And if he doesn’t show up, maybe we’ll have fewer eyeballs. But either way, it’s okay.

‘Schlonged’

Trump outdid himself with vulgar banter toward Hillary Clinton, a Democratic presidential candidate, at a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Dec. 21. The real estate mogul used the term “schlonged,” which is Yiddish slang for a man’s genitals, to describe Clinton’s loss in the 2008 Democratic presidential race against then Sen. Barack Obama.

“She was going to beat Obama,” Trump said. “… She was going to beat — she was favored to win — and she got schlonged. She lost.”

Also at the Michigan rally, Trump criticized Clinton for returning to the stage late after a bathroom break during the Democratic presidential debate on Dec. 19.

“I thought she gave up,” he said. “Where did she go? Where did Hillary go? They had to start the debate without her. Phase II. I know where she went. It’s disgusting. I don’t want to talk about it.”

Trump used Twitter on Dec. 22 to defend the “schlonged” comment:

Once again, #MSM is dishonest. “Schlonged” is not vulgar. When I said Hillary got “schlonged” that meant beaten badly.

Clinton said in an interview on Dec. 23 that she chooses not to respond to Trump personally.

“I don’t respond to him personally, because he thrives on that kind of exchange,” she said. “I think he has to answer for what he says, and I assume that others will make the larger point about his language. It’s not the first time he’s demonstrated a penchant for sexism. Again, I’m not sure anybody’s surprised that he keeps pushing the envelope.”

On Latinos

Right from day one of his presidential campaign, during his announcement speech on June 16, Trump went after Latinos. He said, among other things, that Mexicans are criminals and rapists (though he added that “some, I assume, are good people”).

The outcry following that statement prompted Univision Communications to cancel its broadcast of Trump’s Miss USA pageant, caused NBC Universal to sever ties with one of its most successful reality stars, forced Macy’s to terminate it’s relationship and remove his clothing line — and even led PGA Golf to distance itself from Trump.

But despite the onslaught of condemnation ranging from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio calling Trump’s comments “disgusting,” “offensive” and “hateful,” to Latina music icon Shakira saying Trump’s “hateful and racist speech attempts to divide a country that for years has promoted diversity and democracy,” and many others believing he had crossed the line and doomed his candidacy, Trump went right on insulting Latinos.

Among his proposals, Trump vowed to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants from the United States and build “a great big wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent further illegal immigration.

While being asked about that policy by Univision anchor Jorge Ramos during a press conference in Iowa, Trump shouted down Ramos and then had him forcibly removed by his security. As Ramos was waiting to get back inside the press conference, a member of Trump’s entourage told Ramos, a U.S. citizen, to “get out of my country.”

And during the Republican presidential debate on Nov. 10, Trump compared his plan for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants to President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “Operation Wetback” program, which deported more than 1 million people to Mexico in the 1950s and led to many immigrant deaths.

Latino groups, including the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Move On, the National Association of Latino Independent Producers and the National Council of La Raza, have all publically denounced Trump.

“There’s mounting evidence that Donald Trump’s racist demagoguery is resulting in real-world violence and physical and verbal intimidation,” said Mushed Zaheed, deputy political director of Credo Action, one of the groups that participated in “Stop the Hate” march lobbying NBC to cancel Trump’s appearance on “Saturday Night Live.”

For his part, Trump has said, “I do great with Latino voters. I employ so many Latinos. The Latinos love Trump, and I love them.”

On Blacks

Trump has blamed Blacks and Hispanics for the nation’s violent crime, tweeting on June 5:

“Sadly, the overwhelming amount of violent crime in our major cities is committed by blacks and Hispanics – a tough subject – must be discussed.”

On November 22, he retweeted a racially loaded image of a masked Black man holding a handgun in a threatening manner alongside false statistics attempting to show that Blacks kill more people of all other races. One “fact” stated that Blacks killed 81 percent of white homicide victims in 2015, when, according to the FBI, the number is closer to 15 percent.

That tweet, incidentally, came a day after a Black protester was physically assaulted and removed from a Trump rally in Alabama.

“Get him the hell out of here, will you, please?” Trump said. “Get him out of here. Throw him out!” The crowd responded with cheers.

The following morning on Fox News, Trump seemed to justify the violence against the protester: “Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”

Black pastors and religious leaders were invited for a private meeting with Trump at Trump Tower, but many refused to attend, citing his rhetoric.

Bishop Corletta Vaughn, senior pastor of The Holy Ghost Cathedral, explained on Facebook why she would not attend.

“Trump is an insult and embarrassment. But he represents the country we have become,” she posted.“ZERO experience … Flaunting a ticket of unbridled bigotry, sexism, racism and everything that is wrong with America.”

In an interview with CNN’s Don Lemon last week, Lemon asked Trump directly, “Are you racist?”

Trump has also made disparaging comments about women, including presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, whom he referred to as “Carly whatever-the-hell-her-name is” and said has a face that makes her unelectable.

“Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that?” Trump was quoted as saying in a September 9Rolling Stone article. “Can you imagine that, the face of our next president … I mean, she’s a woman, and I’m not s’posedta say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?”

Fox News’ Megyn Kelly was also on the receiving end of Trump’s misogynistic comments. Following the first GOP debate in August, during which Trump felt singled out by Kelly’s “ridiculous” questions, Trump unleashed on Kelly on CNN the following night: “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”

Incidentally, among the questions Trump took offense to from Kelly during that debate regarded comments he has made in the past about women, such as calling some women “fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals.” Trump quickly shot back that he was only referring to Rosie O’Donnell.

The president and CEO of the conservative group Concerned Women for America, Penny Young Nance, told CNN that Trump’s “tantrum was even more enlightening than his original remarks she questioned.”

“Does he have a problem with women?” asked Young Nance. “Three wives would suggest that yes, maybe there’s a problem. The good news is that Kelly is a mother of toddlers and knows how to deal with petulance and tantrums. Every presidential election since 1964 has been carried by women. Women don’t like mean and we certainly won’t vote for men or women we don’t trust. Trump’s biggest woman problem is how does he convince women to trust him to keep America safe?”

On POWs

When Trump insulted Arizona Sen. John McCain on July 18 saying the former prisoner of war (who was tortured at the infamous Hanoi Hilton) was not a war hero, most observers felt he had crossed the line and the statement would doom his campaign.

“He’s not a war hero,” Trump said. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

In response, the Republican National Committee issued a statement saying: “Sen. McCain is an American hero because he served his country and sacrificed more than most can imagine. Period. There is no place in our party or our country for comments that disparage those who have served honorably.”

For his part, McCain said he did not need an apology from Trump, instead telling MSNBC: “I think he may owe an apology to the families of those who have sacrificed in conflict and those who have undergone the prison experience in serving our country.”

On Muslims

Among his latest hateful comments, Trump on December 7 said that all Muslim individuals, including those who hold American citizenship, should be banned from entering the United States until the country reviews its re-entry, immigration and visitation policies and procedures.

He also claimed thousands of New Jersey Muslims celebrated the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11, called for a national database to track all Muslims and advocated for surveillance of mosques.

Trump commented there should be many systems “beyond databases” and he’d get Muslims registered by using “good management.” When asked by a reporter, “Is there a difference between requiring Muslims to register and Jews in Nazi Germany?” Trump responded, “You tell me.”

In a Time magazine column on Wednesday, former NBA star and practicing Muslim Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said Trump’s spreading of fear and hate gives him more in common with ISIS than with America:

“The terrorist campaign against American ideals is winning. Fear is rampant. Gun sales are soaring. Hate crimes are increasing. Bearded hipsters are being mistaken for Muslims. And 83 percent of voters believe a large-scale terrorist attack is likely here in the near future. Some Americans are now so afraid that they are willing to trade in the sacred beliefs that define America for some vague promises of security from the very people who are spreading the terror. ‘Go ahead and burn the Constitution — just don’t hurt me at the mall.’ That’s how effective this terrorism is. I’m not talking about ISIS. I’m talking about Donald Trump.”

Even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a far-right conservative, said a ban on Muslims such as the one proposed by Trump would be “completely inconsistent with American values.”

Tayyib Rashid, who goes by‏‪@MuslimMarine on Twitter, responded to Trump with this tweet: “Hey @realDonaldTrump, I’m an American Muslim and I already carry a special ID badge. Where’s yours? #SemperFi #USMC.” and then displayed his Armed Forces ID badge.

On November 24, Trump added people with disabilities to his ever-growing list of those he has bashed. His target was Serge Kovaleski, a reporter who has a congenital condition that limits the movement of his joints.

At a rally in Alabama, Trump attacked a column written by Kovaleski, now at The New York Times, in which Kovaleski rebukes Trump and accuses him of lying. Speaking at the rally, Trump shared an excerpt from the article before flailing his arms seemingly in a way to mimic Kovaleski’s disability.

Other presidential hopefuls are denouncing Trump’s comments and actions. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie went on CNN’s “New Day” and blasted Trump, saying, “He shouldn’t be making fun of people’s disabilities, it’s just not worthy of someone running for president of the United States.”

On Asians

During a speech at an event in Iowa on August 26 talking about what a great negotiator he is, especially when dealing with the Chinese, Trump used broken English to impersonate Asian negotiators. “When these people walk into the room, they don’t say, ‘Oh hello, how’s the weather? It’s so beautiful outside. How are the Yankees doing? They’re doing wonderful, that’s great,’” Trump said. “They say, ‘We want deal!’”

Carl Hum of Asian Americans Advancing Justice said Trump’s mockery of Asians was a slap in the face to a community with deep roots in the U.S. “We’ve seen Asian Americans portrayed as the perpetual foreigner — dismissing our strong American roots, ignoring our contributions and treating us as expendable,” he said. “I fear this won’t be the last time this election cycle that Asians are mocked and used as easy targets.”

On Everyone Else

Beyond targeting entire groups of people, Trump has not held back from insulting journalists, politicians, his fellow candidates or the president of the United States.

He has called politicians “weak and inefficient” and said President Barack Obama is “stupid.” He says he is still uncertain whether Obama was born in the United States.

Trump also mocked Marco Rubio as “weak like a baby.” He said Ben Carson “has a pathological disease,” like a child molester. “A child molester, there’s no cure for that,” he said.

And he even insulted Iowans. “How stupid are the people of Iowa?” he asked the crowd in Fort Dodge, Iowa, regarding Carson’s story of his violent past. “How stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap?”

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who has been on the receiving end of many of Trump’s insults as well, believes Trump has gone too far with his rhetoric.

“He has been stoking prejudice and paranoia, he’s been really appealing to the worst instincts of human nature,” Clinton added. “I think it’s dangerous, his demagoguery is no longer amusing.”

The New York Times editorial board last week described Trump as “a singular celebrity narcissist who has somehow, all alone, brought his party and its politics to the brink of fascism,” adding that, “Serious damage is already being done to the country, to its reputation overseas, by a man who is seen as speaking for America and twisting its message of tolerance and welcome, and by the candidates who trail him and are competing for his voters.”

An earlier NYT opinion column asked plainly, “Is Trump a Fascist?”

“You know who loves me? The Tea Party. The evangelicals. You know, I’m leading with evangelicals,” Trump said in an interview with CNN’s Don Lemon. “I love them. They love me.”

According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll conducted late last week, the majority of Trump supporters who agree with his proposals are in fact people who live in rural areas and whose education is limited to a high school degree.

The poll found that the more education a person has, the more likely they are to reject Trump’s proposals. For example, 66 percent of people with a college degree oppose Trump’s blanket ban on Muslims, and 81 percent of those with a post-graduate degree say they oppose it.

Donald Trump may be a joke but it’s folly to underestimate his supporters. I would not be surprised if he won the nomination. If that’s the case; it should be a wake up call to finally crush this reckless, bigoted, vulgar man at the ballot boxes. Make no mistake; he and his followers are dangerous; they should not be taken lightly.

It will all be a matter of how many people vote. It was a good deal of work done in the last two elections to get people to vote. It worked. I’m afraid that Hillary will not excite enough Democrats and independents to come out and vote – and we will have President Trump. I doubt she will have the same ” get out the vote” organization that President Obama had in both elections. Cuyahoga county in Ohio is one of those critical pivot points.

I agree with you Luke. I have worked the polls before and the majority of the American people do not get out and vote. President Obama reached a good majority of people that had not voted in previous elections and I am afraid that with the candidates we have now that will not be the case.

How fun to compare Donald Trump to Adoph Hitler. I would have to say that in terms of strict Totalitarianism vs. Capitalism, Barack Obama is much more on the Totalitarian side of the spectrum than is Trump. Hillary is already saying that if Congress doesn’t do exactly what she wants, she has the old pen and phone ready – just like Obama – as well as the paper shredder for the Constitution. Interesting that this forum is fine with a Totalitarian regime as long as it is one that weighs towards their side.

Hitler rose to power from poverty. He was a corporal in the German army during the First World War. Trump was born ultra rich. He never served. Rather than leveraging his good fortune to help less advantaged people, or contribute to society, he thinks his wealth is providential and leverages his power to spew hate at non-white people and women. He’s a reprehensible chicken hawk rabble rouser. There’s a reason Putin likes him. Evil filth tends to group together.

Much like Hitler, Trump’s power base is among the less educated and less accomplished. He builds this base by cultivating hate, so they can blame others for their problems, just like Hitler. Also like Hitler he will send his supporter’s children to war to get ground to bloody mush, then he’ll disappear when it comes time to care for the maimed and children who lost a parent – because people who think good fortune comes from providence think people who aren’t so fortunate are inferior. This is why he denigrated the heroism of Senator McCain.

President Obama was a constitutional scholar at Harvard Law. He gave health care insurance to poor Americans. He ended two illegal and unjust wars, started by W (the letter that shall not be named) with lies.

Republican governors are expanding Obamacare as the Republicans in congress try to end it with subterfuge.

Very well put, pll. Most liberal activists are closeted totalitarians, in my experience, not so much interested in the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights but quite likely to try to force folk to live and act in a manner that conforms to that which their liberal leaders declare to be the right way to live and act.

Only in the alternate universe of FOXpublicans, where the “Patriot Act” enables out of control “law enforcement” to listen to private phone calls and we have perpetual war for “our security” – along with $600 billion “defense” budgets and double that for “intelligence” does a constitutional scholar get branded as being totalitarian.

Obama, Lancaster PA, 2008: “I taught constitutional law for ten years. I take the constitution very seriously. The biggest problem that we’re facing right now has to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all, and that’s what I intend to reverse when I’m president of the United States of America.”

Obama, to Univision, 2011: “Well, first of all, temporary protective status historically has been used for special circumstances where you have immigrants to this country who are fleeing persecution in their countries, or there is some emergency situation in their native land that required them to come to the United States. So it would not be appropriate to use that just for a particular group that came here primarily, for example, because they were looking for economic opportunity.

With respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations through executive order, that’s just not the case, because there are laws on the books that Congress has passed — and I know that everybody here at Bell is studying hard so you know that we’ve got three branches of government. Congress passes the law. The executive branch’s job is to enforce and implement those laws. And then the judiciary has to interpret the laws.

There are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to simply through executive order ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as President.“

Obama’s September 28, 2011 “Open for Questions” round table on issues that matter to the Hispanic community: “I just have to continue to say this notion that somehow I can just change the laws unilaterally is just not true. We are doing everything we can administratively. But the fact of the matter is there are laws on the books that I have to enforce. And I think there’s been a great disservice done to the cause of getting the DREAM Act passed and getting comprehensive immigration passed by perpetrating the notion that somehow, by myself, I can go and do these things. It’s just not true.”

But during the 2012 campaign, Obama was running scared and bowed to Hispanic pressure, Constitution be damned, and announced a scheme that allows as many as 800,000 illegals to avoid deportation and be eligible for work permits if they arrived in the U.S. before age 16, are younger than 30, have been in the country for at least five continuous years, and meet other requirements. Obama’s new immunity scheme partially achieved the goals of the so-called DREAM Act, meant to establish a path toward citizenship for certain illegals but consistently rejected by Congress.

The “you lie” Republican Congress has accomplished nothing. The party is going to pay for that in the next election as the people in the party have rejected it’s leadership and their handpicked Jeb!, in favor of Trump.

You’re confusing one’s place on the political spectrum with their manner of governing. One can be left-wing and govern democratically, like some of the Western European nations, or govern in a totalitarian manner, like North Korea, Russia, etc. One can be right-wing and govern democratically, like England under Margaret Thatcher, or govern in a totalitarian manner, like Hitler. They are totally separate concepts, and one does not equate with the other.

I believe they are, GB. Totalitarianism is, to me, Stalin or Mao or you decreeing that all agricultural and industrial production in the entire country will follow the 5 year government plan, and woe betide any and all who buck the planned system for any reason, even if the reason is logical and the results of the system bucking beneficial and profitable. Capitalism, on the other hand, I would say, is alot like college sports teams, where, for instance, 5 year plans of mandatory racial and socio-economic affirmative action quotas are not even considered, and, within the NCAA’s rules, what wins is what works, and what wins is what’s celebrated. Of course, many capitalists and many college athletic directors and coaches achieve their best success by cheating, hence the need for honest, dedicated governing and enforcement.

Mr. Rashid’s tweet highlights the hypocrisy and ignorance of Mr. Trump’s hate speech. Oh, Mr. Trump is a tough guy that is going to send our troops to battle all of those he sees as enemies of our country, and to prohibit and eventually eliminate diversity in the U.S. But what do the troops look like, what religious beliefs do they hold as they defend a country they feel a part of, or want to become a part of?

I couldn’t quickly get the data on the religious distribution of our active duty force, but I know there are Muslim chaplains, indeed chaplains of various religions who are to minister to the troops no matter what religious beliefs they hold or don’t hold. I hope this never comes to pass, but if Trump were to become the Commander in Chief, would he exclude all non-Christians (and the weird Christians like Catholics, Seventh Day Adventists, etc. etc.) from the Armed Forces.

What about the over 30% minority, 11.2% HIspanics, and 14.5% women that are serving our country in uniform (according to a DoD 2011 demographics report)? Oh, and the 4% non-citizen recruits? Would they be prohibited as well, even though in a 2012 article Time Magazine indicates non-citizen make the best soldiers? And those who have become disabled in serving our country? Are they, like those captured in Vietnam, to be blamed for their injuries, so we should forget about them?

Would he like to see a reduction to his business profits of 30 – 50%? Would he want his Armed Forces to be reduced by that amount? But aside from the statistics, what message is he sending to our troops? That they are to defend only for the America he sees, even if they aren’t a part of his vision? Or are they only the service class fighting for those in the favored class? Come on, just come on.

Trump is a fear monger, he is attractive to the older white male majority who fear they will loose control. I understand that part of it. What boggles my mind is the women, and people of color that are for him. Is it that they “pretend” to be what they aren’t??

Donald Chump is smart, business minded, used to cutting deals and getting his way. He is loud and is a force to be reckoned with. Everything that is right with him are the same things that are wrong with him. He has no political experience and thinks he can run the country the way he runs a business deal. He has cast disparaging remarks on so many different groups of people because in his mind “I’m rich. I don’t need your money or friendship. I’ll take my business elsewhere.” But this time he is not fighting for business or money, it’s the vote that he needs. His attitude is unbecoming of a president. “It doesn’t matter who I insult because I’m #1. I’m not coming to the debate because the reporter hurt my feelings.” We may as well let a 4 year old run the country, because at least, when they finish having a temper tantrum and say things they shouldn’t, they often come out of ‘time out’ and apologize!

He’s not that good of a businessman, he started adult life with $170 million from his dad. His total business results are not as good as if he just invested that money in an S&P500 index fund. I will give him credit for not losing it all, which is what happens to many spoiled children who inherit money.

When the going gets got tough for him, he declares bankruptcy to avoid paying his creditors. He’s done this four times. You can’t do that when you’re president. I’m quite sure Putin is rooting for him. Putin is a real tough guy, and will clean Trump’s clock.

President Obama, who Trump still asserts is not a citizen, is a million times more capable than Trump. You or I are just as qualified to be president as trump.

He’s not smart. He got his money from daddy and then continually lost it. What he does is he bullies (and sues) people into getting what he wants. When his businesses fail he walks away.

Money begets money. The average person doesn’t understand how simply being rich can get you millions of dollars in loans and investments – simply because you have considerable wealth already. No one turns down a rich man. I worked in banking (and for the FDIC). People would be aghast at who is literally handed over millions of dollars in depositors’ money with little or no collateral because that person already has wealth. It has little to do with actual business acumen.

Donald Trump, as far as I can tell, has a vocabulary of about 5 descriptive words – fantastic, yuge (huge), wonderful, fantastic, big. Run through the Flesch-Kincaid test, Trump’s speech is around at a fourth grade level. This may or may not be deliberate. Certainly a lot of his constituency seems to be operating at that level when it comes to critical thinking skills.

My mom and I used to extinguish between smart and “slick”/”shrewd”. I’ll give Trump that – he’s certainly “slick” and “shrewd” and tapped right into America’s racism.

Trump leaves a lot to be desired but that doesn’t justify being untruthful to try to make him look worse. It is impossible to start with under 200 million and get to multi-billions
by continually loosing money. Give credit where credits due and concentrate on the honest short comings..

Reportedly, at his veterans’ event last night — in lieu of participating in the 7th Republican debate on Fox — Trump wore a nametag that said — I’m going to have to censor this here — “F— Megyn Kelly.”

I really don’t care what Donald trump said about certain people,any thing he has said is not half as bad as what the hildabeast and congress has done and let happen for the last 8 years. think about it

I think you’re confused. Hillary wasn’t in congress over the past eight years. Perhaps your addled brain was trying to criticize Obama? And what has he done? Leaving W’s two wars started by lies? Recovering from the worst recession since 1934? Healthcare for poor people? A path towards law enforcement reform? Cheap oil? 3.5% mortgages?

What exactly has republican congress done, except screw things up so badly that they advanced trump to the ticket?

And what has draft dodger trump done except cheat on wives, customers, contractors and our government (taxes)?

Well I guess he did perfect self promotion and swirling “his” orange confection around his bald head.

If you really want to blow a red-neck’s mind, try this: If it hadn’t been for President Obama, there would be no NASCAR. Think about it…He saved the auto industry. No North American Stock Cars, no NASCAR. He not only saved the sport, he saved hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process. —their whole little mind just blows up.

The violence and lying in America has been committed by Hillary supporters, not Trump supporters. The Liberal media has lied repeatedly about Trump supporters who are just regular people who don’t hate anyone.

I know. It was a shock to me when I was invited to join the illiterati. I was taken to Malta onboard an airplane that spewed chemtrails the entire way. I can’t tell you about the initiation, but after that I got the I can’t tell you about the initiation, but after that I got the Soros talking points everyday on snap chat.